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“At its core, meditation is about touching the spiritual essence that exists within us all. Our spiritual essence is not something that we create through meditation it's already there, deep within, behind all the barriers, patiently waiting for us to recognize it.”

Spiritual Waiting Behinds Meditation Essence Core Barriers Touching Deep Within Patiently Waiting

Author:Aaron Hoopes

“The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.”

Thinking Doe Ideas Waiting Mistake Humorous Essence Oneself Details Copies New Ideas My Mistakes Life Mistakes

Book:Classic Aubrey Menen: Complete and Unabridged

Source: Classic Aubrey Menen: Complete and Unabridged

“The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the organized efforts of ordinary men. Science is as old as the race, but the effective organization of science is new. Ancient science, like placer mining, was a pursuit of solitary prospectors. Nuggets of truth were found, but the total wealth of knowledge increased slowly. Modern man began to transform this world when he began to mine the hidden veins of knowledge systematically.”

“Being blocked, being uncertain, sitting there not knowing, waiting, abiding with it: this is the work. If you don't have the tolerance for that you're in great trouble. If you want to call it a writer's block... that doesn't seem a very useful name for that kind of abiding that I think is the essence of the work.”

Ifs Thinking Want Kind Seems Names Waiting Knowing Trouble Sitting Essence Tolerance Block Not Knowing Uncertain Abiding Blocked Writer's Block

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“When you do a play, you have all this time to rehearse and grow into the character. In television, even though you're waiting and waiting and waiting, once you're actually on set engaging in the scene with another actor, time is of the essence.”

Play Character Actors Grows Waiting Television Scene Essence Engaging

Author:Aja Naomi King

“Time is of the essence, particularly if we're sending images out on social media. The reality is that the majority of images are only viewed for a few seconds, often on a phone or computer. There are so many images freely available that it takes a lot of will power to concentrate and prolong the gaze on one picture at the expense of the thousands of others waiting to be viewed!”

Ifs Reality Social Waiting Media Computer Essence Majority Phones Available Social Media Expenses Seconds Will Power

Author:Michael Kenna

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”

Want Love Life Action Romance Fear Waiting Beauty Courage Our Lives Depression Essence Novelists Dragons Princess Helpless Our Love Overcoming Fear Fright

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“But in the garden the sun still shone. The innumerable bees hummed. The scent of thyme hung on the air. But only the Natterjack was there to breathe the fragrant essence of it. He and the garden were waiting. They were waiting for more children. They didn't care how long they waited. They had all the time in the world. -The Time Garden, Edward Eager”

World Children Long Stills Care Waiting Sun Air Garden Essence Breathe Bees Hung Scent Thyme

Book:The Time Garden

Source: The Time Garden

“But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.”

People Long Soul Past Remember Waiting Broken Bears Taste Long Time Essence Structure Endure Smell Tiny Ruins Faithful Fragile Persistent Recollection Taste And Smell

Book:Swann's Way

Source: Swann's Way

“She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.”

Years Soul Body Spirit Stars Waiting Rooms Century Wind Hundred Sitting Essence Unity Philosopher Contemplation Waiting Rooms

Book:The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature

Source: The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature

“I flicked on the light beside my bed, waiting for my breathing to slow, veins full of adrenaline from the realistic dream. A new dream, but in essence so much the same as the many others that had plagued me in the past months. No, not a dream. Surely a memory. I could still feel the heat of Jared's lips on mine. My hands reached out without my permission, searching across the rumpled sheets, looking for something they didn't find. My heart ached when they gave up, falling to the bed limp and empty.”

Feels Heart Stills Dream Hands Light Past Fall Waiting Memories Mines Months My Heart Bed Empty Essence Lips Breathing Heat Realistic Permission Sheets Veins Gave Up Adrenaline

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Here's a message to the new borns, waiting to breathe: if you believe then you can achieve. Just look at me, against all odds 'though life is hard, we carry on, livin' in the projects, broke with no lights on. To all the seeds that follow me- protect your essence, born with less, but you still precious.”

Ifs Believe Looks Stills Hard Light Life Is Waiting Born Achieve Protect Projects Messages Essence Breathe Seeds Broke Odds Look At Me If You Believe Follow Me Life Is Hard Against All Odds

Author:Tupac Shakur